This is a TextMate grammar for the Progress OpenEdge ABL Language (formerly known as 4GL).
It's used in the OpenEdge ABL for Visual Studio Code extension.
The main file is abl.tmLanguage.json so contributors should hand-modify this file.
Tests are run from the root folder
npm install
npm test
If you noticed a syntax highlight issue in the VSCode extension, please try to create a failing test case first, and then modify the grammar accordingly.
You can test this grammar locally with the associated VSCode extension:
git clone [email protected]:chriscamicas/abl-tmlanguage.git
cd abl-tmlanguage
npm link
cd ..
git clone [email protected]:chriscamicas/vscode-abl.git
cd vscode-abl
npm link abl-tmlanguage
You can now run and debug the extension from the vscode-abl directory (with the Launch Extension task).
Every modification to the abl-tmlanguage project should be reflected in the vscode-abl directory immediately.
See npm link.
This project uses the JSON format over the plist one, mainly because I find it much more readable.
If you prefer the plist format, or the YAML one, there is an extension for VSCode that can convert them: TextMate Languages.
Note: I plan on using the YAML syntax (even more compact and readable) but it needs a build step as VSCode does not handle YAML natively.
This project use the vscode-textmate package to tokenize and test the grammar.
Part of this grammar is generated from a keyword list file. See [index.js].
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